Content type 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8' not supported

Question

@PostMapping public UserResponse createUser(@RequestBody UserRequest userDetail) {

    UserResponse returnValue = new UserResponse();
    UserDto userDto = new UserDto();

    BeanUtils.copyProperties(userDetail, userDto);

    UserDto storedData = userService.createUser(userDto);
    BeanUtils.copyProperties(storedData, returnValue);

    return returnValue;
}

this is the code I am getting this error

{
"timestamp": "2020-05-13T12:24:04.866+0000",
"status": 415,
"error": "Unsupported Media Type",
"message": "Content type 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8' not supported",
"path": "/users"

}

I have tried a lot of different ways still not getting the solution This is the image from the postman image from postman

Answer 1

Are you using Postman to fire the request? you might want to check these settings

Edit. Add another image for troubleshooting

Answer 2

That because your service is only accepting application/json content type. If you want to accepting application/x-www-form-urlencoded you can add consumes = MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED_VALUE inside @PostMapping annotation

bellow is sample of service that accept application/json and give application/json response.

@PostMapping(path = "/v1/agent/create", consumes = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE, produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
    public ApiResponseWrapperDto createAgent(@RequestBody ApiRequestWrapperDto request) throws Exception {
        return this.agentManagementApiHandler.createAgent(request);
}

Hope this solve your problem.

Thanks